Editorial: Western democracies are wrong to overlook a country’s descent into electoral autocracy because they believe they need it to contain China
The west thinks that it must keep stumm because it needs India to contain China.
But at what cost to democracy and human rights? Mukul Kesavan, an Indian historian,earlier this year that when the White House rolled out the red carpet for Mr Modi, “One of the more entertaining things about [his] visit has been the sight of [Joe] Biden welcoming a foreign leader who had openly campaigned for his predecessor and liberalLast year, Gothenburg University’s annual report on the state of global democracy warned of a wave of “autocratization” spreading around the world.
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